Secretary/Treasurer:
Art & Build Architect
Marco Da Col
255/8 Chaussée de Waterloo
B-1060 Bruxelles
+32 2 542 58 08
mda@artbuild.eu

Chairman
OPAi | oneplanetarchitecture institute
Barry Koperberg
+31 621 587 168
b.koperberg@OPAi.eu

Charter (EN)

Zahn Architecture is an interdisciplinary working office of 3 architects and 5 engineers in the field of integral planning and building

Klaus Zahn is among architects a pioneer in ecological and biological building construction and energy questions. Coming from the southwest of Germany with its tradition of natural health care and ecological building he has established a bureau for holistic building and planning at Freiburg and Berlin.

Besides building he also is teaching, lecturing and editing: Co-editor of the German magazine “Wohnen und Gesundheit” (Housing and Health) and Biotope City Journal. He also organizes congresses and meetings on the issue of ecological building, as 2007, the congress “Ökologisches Bauen” of the Green Party at the German Parliament in Berlin.

Bureau Berlin
Windscheidstrasse 12
D-10627 Berlin
+49-30 214 798 08

Bureau Freiburg
Erbprinzenstrasse 18
D-79098 Freiburg
tel +49-761 704 26 79
www.zahn-architektur.de
office@zahn-architektur.de

Christmas Eve, 1968:

Astronauts take the first picture of the Earth through a window of the Apollo 8 spacecraft.

Christmas Eve, 2008:

On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, the oneplanetarchitecture institute (OPAi) is established as a new platform for inter-disciplinary co-operation. OPAi aims to make a fresh contribution to sustainable ‘structures’ ranging from buildings to supply chains. With the establishment of OPAi, the oneplanetarchitecture attitude and methodology as developed by RAU is no longer limited to traditional architecture as such. It is now an attitude based network that partners can use for their own benefit and the planet at large.

For each case, OPAi forms project-specific teams. Each team is a unique collaboration of people we know from our network. They work in a co-operative, task oriented manner and are determined to deliver the quality that our planet earth deserves.

OPAi’s fields of research, consultancy and project management include:

• Energy (saving; production; distribution)
• Materials (origin; conversion; life cycle analysis)
• Organisational development (flow, balance, change, identity)
• Context analysis (integration into nature; space for nature)

The RAU architectural team, based in Amsterdam, adopts a particular attitude, defined by the term

ONEPLANETARCHITECTURE.

RAU designs buildings with a strong emphasis on sustainability. For 16 years now, the studio has been working for the public and private sectors, maintaining an approach that is conscious of planet earth and uses integral methodology. RAU is actively involved in the current international discussion on sustainability and in developing energy-saving technology and energy-producing building concepts.

In a world where so much nature is threatened by human activity, RAU considers it its mission to make a positive contribution through its presence and its work.

Office
KNSM-Laan 65
1019 LB Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Postal Address
Postbus 564
1000 AN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel +31 20 419 02 02
www.rau.eu
info@rau.eu

Art & Build architects – a Humanistic approach to Architecture.

Art & Build is about turning thoughts into reality, leading to the built form in a time window where contextual parameters of matter, form and light crystallize.

ART & BUILD is a group of one hundred architects united by the same passion and motivated by the opportunities of creating contemporary and sustainable architecture offered by society.

Based in Brussels, Paris, Luxemburg and Toulouse, the firm has twenty years international experience in projects for public institutions, developers and private clients in office, residential, leisure, retail, health, education, research and master-planning sectors in over fifteen countries.

The dialectic between “Art” and “Construction”, a fundamental in Art & Build’s philosophy, implies a synthesis of invention and thoroughness, of liberty and efficiency and of holistic prospective thinking and construction

Art & Build Architect
255/8 Chaussée de Waterloo
B-1060 Bruxelles
+32 2 538 72 71

info@artbuild.eu
www.artbuild.eu

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